A trainee nurse has been infected with Covid-19, the first healthcare worker to be infected with the disease in Malaysia. Read More (thestar)
All four cases is Malaysian, more information available at the stats page. Read More (outbreak)
Thailand has reported its first coronavirus fatality, local health officials said on Sunday (March 1). Read More (straitstimes)
The number of Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak cases in South Korea now exceeds more than 3,000 after health authorities reported 813 new infections on Saturday (Feb 29). Read More (thestar)
All 66 Malaysians and their non-citizen family members who were flown home from Wuhan, China, on Feb 25 have tested negative for Covid-19. Read More (nst)
Taiwan reported a five-person jump in new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, including four people who had contact with another infected patient in a hospital and one person returning from the Middle East, bringing Taiwan's total to 39. Read More (thestar)
All foreigners who have been to South Korea in the past 14 days will be refused entry into Sarawak to ensure the state remains free of Covid-19, the state disaster management committee said. Read More (thestar)
The rapid rise in Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases raised fears of a pandemic on Friday (Feb 28), with five countries reporting their first cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning it could spread worldwide and Switzerland cancelling the giant Genev Read More (thestar)
Malaysia has imposed a temporary travel ban on all visitors from South Korea as the global Covid-19 outbreak worsens. Read More (malaysiakini)
The capital has upgraded management over travellers entering China through Beijing to further screen out novel coronavirus (Covid-19) carriers, according to a meeting attended by the city's top officials on Thursday. Read More (thestar)
The UN Security Council on Thursday (Feb 27) declared that it would adopt humanitarian exemptions to the heavy economic sanctions imposed on North Korea to help the impoverished country fight the novel coronavirus, Germany's ambassador to the UN said. Read More (thestar)
Japan is to ask all schools to close from Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, PM Shinzo Abe says. Read More (bbc)
Lebanon confirmed the country's third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency NNA. Read More (thestar)
The Health Ministry says a new case of Covid-19 has been detected, while two more positive cases have made full recovery Read More (thestar)
The patient recently visited Japan; when she returned to Malaysia from Japan on the 23rd of this month, she developed fever and went to a hospital in Kuala Lumpur the next day. Read More (outbreak)